title: Percent positive rate of Lyme real-time polymerase chain reaction in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, and tissue.
abstract: We performed a retrospective review of 23,777 specimens tested by our Lyme real-time polymerase chain reaction assay to determine the percent positive rates by specimen source. The percent positive rates were highest in synovial fluid (6.4%) and tissue (6.5%), and lowest in blood (0.1%) and cerebrospinal fluid (0.09%).
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
authors.forename: Ngolela Esther
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Babady
authors.forename: Lynne M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Sloan
authors.forename: Emily A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Vetter
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Binnicker
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000032:analysis; D025065:Borrelia burgdorferi / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013582:Synovial Fluid / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins